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Nigeria Ranks 158 on UN’s Human Devt Index

11.29.2007

Nigeria ranked 158 on UN's 2007/2008 Human Development Index (HDI), which measures countries' achievements in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment and real income. Last year, the country   was 159th.

"The HDI for Nigeria is 0.470, which gives the country a rank of 158th out of 177 countries in the report," the UN  Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report (HDR) 2007/2008, stated. 

The HDI is part of the HDR 2007, a flagship study produced annually by the UNDP. It was released in Brasilia, Brazil and at UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday.

“However, due to shifts in how countries report statistics from which the ranking are calculated, the index  is subject to regular adjustment,'' authors of the report said.

 News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN), reports that Mauritius is the only African country with high HDI  on the continent, placed at the 65th position.  It, however, went down by two from last year's 63.

The list was topped by Iceland, followed by Norway, which was number one last year.  Chad, Central Africa Republic (CAR), Mozambique, Mali, Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone came at the rear.

The first UNDP Human Development Report was prepared and launched in 1990. The report is annually translated into more than a dozen languages and launched in more than 100 countries.

2007/2008 Human Development Index ranking

Source:  http://hdr.undp.org/en/